
Yesterday I was at ANOTHER staffing joint in a long line of attempts to find a job, and the guy there gave me some advice about “getting a job.” He said, “You either know someone or you are a good bullshizzer, and obviously you don’t know anyone or you would have a job.” Sad but so true.
To twist the knife a little more, I read this story in The Washington Post this morning. Everyone’s favorite ex-President made over 100 “end of term appointments,” doling them out to, huge shock, his suck-up aides and GOP money bags supporters, many of which will outlast Obama’s four years in office.
This is by far my favorite part of the article:
Fred F. Fielding, Emmet T. Flood, William A. Burck and Daniel M. Price worked together at the White House under George W. Bush. Less than two weeks before leaving office, Bush made sure the senior aides shared a new assignment, naming them to an obscure World Bank agency called the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes.
The appointments are for six years and are potentially lucrative, paying up to $3,000 a day plus travel and other expenses if an appointee is chosen to hear a case. Bush also named two other prominent Republican lawyers to the agency, which attempts to broker international finance disagreements.
3G’s A DAY!?!?!! I didn’t even pull that in a month when I HAD a job!